Private Prison Stocks Soar As Companies Cash In On Incarcerated Immigrants

Nicole Flatow, Think Progress
Tue, 09/02/2014 - 9:40am

CREDIT: Shutterstock Share prices for two of the largest private prison firms have spiked sharply since an influx of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the border was reported this summer. And some investors in GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America are seizing on the opportunity for more profit from incarceration, according to recent comments to CNN Money.

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